Rutherford Cross is delighted to be working with a leading drinks business to appoint a Senior Finance Consolidation Analyst.

The purpose of the role is to support the upgrade of an ERP system to an updated version, incorporating changes to trading flows (inter/intra company) as part of a new internal operating model within the Group and the introduction of new functionality. This involves playing a key role in the implementation of the Consolidation module to produce accurate consolidated reporting of the Group and solo entities’ profit and loss accounts, balance sheets and cash flows for actuals, budget, and forecasts.

Duties include:

• Help to drive the implementation of the Consolidation module in the upgraded version of the ERP system.
• This represents a considerable change as the corresponding module is not used in the current version of
  IFS.
• Help to drive activities to introduce data uploads into the Consolidation module from other Group companies that use different finance systems, testing and verifying the integrity of the data.
• Partner with the Group Reporting and Group Management Reporting teams to ensure that the new system provides appropriate statutory and management reporting capabilities.
• Deliver the test activity for the Consolidation module including financial validation of the expected results.
• Support the post-go live support activities including immediate critical care and subsequent error resolution.
• Partner with the Group Reporting and Group Management Reporting teams to ensure that the new system provides appropriate statutory and management reporting capabilities.
• Develop an understanding of the new Internal operating trading model and support the Group Finance activities to identify and respond to the associated changes.
• Have detailed involvement in rigorous testing of the system and internal operating model changes, including documentation of results, ensuring financial postings are accurate and identify issues and actions to mitigate.
• Contribute appropriately to team meetings and project workshops to progress the Finance activities on the project.
• Take ownership of key documentation and ad hoc financial analysis using the IFS system and supporting reporting tool to support the Group Reporting team.
• Have key involvement with business users based upon knowledge gained through working on the project, including changes to system processes as part of the training of all end users of the module.

On offer:

• Competitive salary
• Annual bonus
• Double matched pension contribution
• Working hours 8:00-4:30 Mon-Thurs, 2:30pm finish on Friday (30 minutes lunch) 38 hours per week- some flexibility in working hours
• 24 days annual leave plus 10 bank holidays, closed between Christmas and new year- employee must use 1 day’s annual leave for this shutdown, option to buy or sell 5 days per year
• Life assurance
• Private health care
• Product allowance